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"And I beheld, and heard the voice of one eagle flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice: Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth....[Apocalypse (Revelation) 8:13]

The historian Ilan Pappe’s latest work, Ten Myths About Israel,
is a useful primer for people just becoming familiar with the
Palestinian liberation struggle – but it is far more than that. It is
also a valuable tool for veteran organizers seeking to explain cogently
and simply how Israel’s foundational myths and ongoing propaganda
perpetuate the oppression of the Palestinian people.

While concise at 192 pages, Ten Myths About Israel points readers to many of the seminal works in Palestinian and Israeli historiography.

What are the 10 myths? Pappe divides the book into three sections: “Fallacies of the Past,” “Fallacies of the Present” and “Looking Ahead.”

The six mythsof the past include the
well-known saying, “a land without a people for a people without a
land,” the conflation of Zionism and Judaism, Zionism as a national
liberation movement and the alleged voluntary flight of Palestinians
during the 1948 war.

The three myths of the present era are the claim that
Israel is a democracy, that the Oslo accords represented a genuine peace
process rather than a “ploy to deepen the occupation” and that Israel’s
multiple attacks on Gaza were simply acts of self-defense.

The final myth looking ahead is that creating two, separate states for Israelis and Palestinians is the only way to achieve a just peace.

Lacking in evidence

Although some of these topics may seem well traveled and the
myths largely debunked, Pappe brings fresh scholarship and insights to
each. In the process, he reveals how these past myths are still very
much operational in the present.

Take, for example, the shopworn fabrication that Palestine
was largely empty of people when Zionist colonists first settled there
and the corresponding claim that Palestinians are an “invented people.”
In rebutting this myth, Pappe brings forward largely neglected works
like Rashid Khalidi’s book, Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness.

Few would argue today that Palestine was largely uninhabited
at the time of Zionist colonization. However, the second myth – that
Jews represented a people or nation without a land – is seldom
challenged. Pappe probes the settler-colonial claim that the Jewish
“nation” is simply returning to the land from which it was supposedly
expelled more than 2,000 years ago.

Drawing on the work of Israeli historian Shlomo Sand and
others, Pappe notes there is no credible historical evidence that the
Jews of Roman Palestine were forcibly exiled in 70 CE. The far greater
likelihood, he maintains, is that they remained on the land with many
converting first to Christianity and then to Islam.

Pappe shows that the notion of a Jewish nation in diaspora
originated with Christian Zionists and often aligned itself with
anti-Semites seeking the expulsion of European Jews through their
“return” to Palestine. Zionism was only later transmuted into a
modern-day “national liberation movement.”

Pro-Zionist organizations often attempt to disguise their
narrow ethnocentric aims with the argument that Jews are simply
reclaiming what is rightfully theirs as an indigenous people.

Although he tips his hat to Sand’s research, Pappe argues
that what really matters is not so much the historical inaccuracy of the
claim but how this “genesis narrative” denies the rights of
Palestinians and “leads to political projects such as genocide, ethnic
cleansing, and oppression.”

Or as The Electronic Intifada contributor Raymond Deane put it in his review of Sand’s The Invention of the Jewish People:
“Ultimately, the case against the Jewish state cannot be based on an
unseemly tussle for genetic primacy, but on a discourse of fundamental
political and human rights.”

THE PEOPLE OF THE LIE

Pappe takes an alternative approach in examining other myths,
such as the 1967 War, which is still regarded widely in the West as a
justified preemptive attack by Israel on the Egyptian army. Several
recent studies, however, have debunked the assertion of an imminent
Egyptian attack on Israel, marshalling evidence instead that the Israeli
military seized an opportunity to destroy Egyptian forces that had
unwittingly been placed in an exposed position.

Pappe, however, builds a case – citing the work of Israeli
historian Tom Segev – that a powerful lobby within the Israeli
government and military, led by Moshe Dayan and Yigal Alon, had long
been planning to take over Gaza and the West Bank. In fact, Pappe
maintains it was a Zionist aim even before 1948 “to take over as much of
Palestine as possible with as few Palestinians as possible.”

As Ten Myths moves on to explore “Fallacies of the Present,”
the author finds it difficult to pinpoint a single representative myth.
The chapters take on plural titles such as “The Oslo Mythologies” and
“The Gaza Mythologies,” to indicate that more than one bubble needs
bursting.

Regarding Oslo, the two principal myths challenged are that
the accords represented a genuine peace process and that Yasser Arafat
as head of the Palestinian Authority intentionally undermined peace by
encouraging terrorist attacks during the second intifada.

Regarding Gaza, the two main myths are the Israeli claim that
Hamas is a terrorist organization and that Israel’s 2005 settlement
withdrawal from Gaza “was a gesture of peace.”

OXYMORON

For this reviewer the key myth that Pappe challenges is the notion that Israel is a democracy.

The ascendancy of political Zionism within the
settler-colonial movement dictated from the beginning the creation of a
Jewish state that could never be democratic. The oxymoron “Jewish and
democratic” betrayed the very notion that in a genuine democracy
sovereignty resides in the people – all the people, not a select
ethno-religious group. A democratic state is supposed to belong to all
its citizens.

All the crimes that attended the creation of a Jewish state
in a land that was majority Palestinian Arab – the ethnic cleansing, the
apartheid, the theft of land, the alliances with imperialism and
colonialism, the incremental genocide and the imposition of
authoritarian rule bordering on fascism – flowed ineluctably from the
idea of an ethnocentric state.

Pappe rightly concludes this primer with a critique of
settler-colonialism, which he says operates on the “logic of
elimination” and the “logic of dehumanization.”

The concept of partition that started this crime wave will
not be solved through a two-state solution, which he argues is simply
another form of partition. As long as the colonialist attitude persists,
Israel will never enjoy “moral legitimacy.”

“Peace is not a matter of demographic change, nor a redrawing
of maps,” Pappe writes. Instead, “it is the elimination” of “racist
ideology and apartheid policies.” Whether or not an ideology can
actually be eliminated remains to be seen, but without a doubt,
political Zionism is both the root of the problem and the Achilles’ heel
of the Israeli state.

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Go forth confidently then, you knights, and repel the foes of the cross of Christ with a stalwart heart. Know that neither death nor life can separate you from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ, and in every peril repeat, "Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's." What a glory to return in victory from such a battle! How blessed to die there as a martyr! Rejoice, brave athlete, if you live and conquer in the Lord; but glory and exult even more if you die and join your Lord. Life indeed is a fruitful thing and victory is glorious, but a holy death is more important than either. If they are blessed who die in the Lord, how much more are they who die for the Lord!

How secure, I say, is life when death is anticipated without fear; or rather when it is desired with feeling and embraced with reverence! How holy and secure this knighthood and how entirely free of the double risk run by those men who fight not for Christ! Whenever you go forth, O worldly warrior, you must fear lest the bodily death of your foe should mean your own spiritual death, or lest perhaps your body and soul together should be slain by him.

Indeed, danger or victory for a Christian depends on the dispositions of his heart and not on the fortunes of war. If he fights for a good reason, the issue of his fight can never be evil; and likewise the results can never be considered good if the reason were evil and the intentions perverse. If you happen to be killed while you are seeking only to kill another, you die a murderer. If you succeed, and by your will to overcome and to conquer you perchance kill a man, you live a murderer. Now it will not do to be a murderer, living or dead, victorious or vanquished. What an unhappy victory--to have conquered a man while yielding to vice, and to indulge in an empty glory at his fall when wrath and pride have gotten the better of you!

But what of those who kill neither in the heat of revenge nor in the swelling of pride, but simply in order to save themselves? Even this sort of victory I would not call good, since bodily death is really a lesser evil than spiritual death. The soul need not die when the body does. No, it is the soul which sins that shall die.

The knight of Christ, I say, may strike with confidence and die yet more confidently, for he serves Christ when he strikes, and serves himself when he falls. Neither does he bear the sword in vain, for he is God's minister, for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of the good. If he kills an evildoer, he is not a mankiller, but, if I may so put it, a killer of evil. He is evidently the avenger of Christ towards evildoers and he is rightly considered a defender of Christians. Should he be killed himself, we know that he has not perished, but has come safely into port.

Once he finds himself in the thick of battle, this knight sets aside his previous gentleness, as if to say, "Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord; am I not disgusted with your enemies?" These men at once fall violently upon the foe, regarding them as so many sheep. No matter how outnumbered they are, they never regard these as fierce barbarians or as awe-inspiring hordes. Nor do they presume on their own strength, but trust in the Lord of armies to grant them the victory.

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Saint Athanasius

"May God console you! ... What saddens you ... is the fact that others have occupied the churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact that they have the premises – but you have the Apostolic Faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true Faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the Faith dwells within you. Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the Faith?The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in the struggle – the one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the Faith? True, the premises are good when the Apostolic Faith is preached there; they are holy if everything takes place there in a holy way ..."You are the ones who are happy; you who remain within the Church by your Faith, who hold firmly to the foundations of the Faith which has come down to you from Apostolic Tradition. And if an execrable jealousy has tried to shake it on a number of occasions, it has not succeeded. They are the ones who have broken away from it in the present crisis. No one, ever, will prevail against your Faith, beloved Brothers. And we believe that God will give us our churches back some day. "Thus, the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more they separate themselves from the Church. They claim that they represent the Church; but in reality, they are the ones who are expelling themselves from it and going astray. Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ."